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The Official Publication of the Worldwide TV-FM DX Association MARCH 2013 The Magazine for TV and FM DXers BUILT HIS OWN ANTENNA FROM C.M. SPECS Photo by Bill Malona Blizzards in the Northeast and Heavy Snow in the Midwest Take a Toll on DXing Visit Us At www.wtfda.org THE WORLDWIDE TV-FM DX ASSOCIATION Serving the UHF-VHF Enthusiast THE VHF-UHF DIGEST IS THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE WORLDWIDE TV-FM DX ASSOCIATION DEDICATED TO THE OBSERVATION AND STUDY OF THE PROPAGATION OF LONG DISTANCE TELEVISION AND FM BROADCASTING SIGNALS AT VHF AND UHF. WTFDA IS GOVERNED BY A BOARD OF DIRECTORS: DOUG SMITH, GREG CONIGLIO, KEITH McGINNIS AND MIKE BUGAJ. Editor and publisher: Mike Bugaj Treasurer: Keith McGinnis wtfda.org Webmaster: Tim McVey wtfda.info Site Administrator: Chris Cervantez Editorial Staff: Jeff Kruszka, Keith McGinnis, Fred Nordquist, Nick Langan, Doug Smith, Peter Baskind, Bill Hale and John Zondlo, Our website: www.wtfda.org; Our forums: www.wtfda.info _______________________________________________________________________________________ MARCH 2013 FEBRUARY! Wurl, Ronald Ehlke, Girard Westerberg, Bryce Foster, Carlon Howington, What a month February was. We in the Kaimbridge on the North Shore, Barry Bauer, Northeast had our blizzard. You in the Midwest Dave Pomeroy, George Rogers and Eldon had your foot or more of snow and down Geiman. A big thank you goes out to all of you! Arkansas way you had your snow and ice. From a post on the WTFDA Forums, Chris Great weather for Dxing, isn’t it? That’s Dunne writes: “Trying for Bahamas on 104.5 probably why this VUD is so thin this month. down here just got 500% tougher. I learned We could use contributors and contributions today that there is a regional Mexican pirate to the VUD. Without contributors, there’s no called "La Equis" (La X) which has quite a VUD. John Z. hasn’t had any reports for swath of coverage....I heard it in south Dade months and sometimes forgets that he’s an down to that bridge on MM 108 (the best spot editor. I think Peter has already. for Bahamas FM, where Bahamas barely We’ll take DX reports. We’ll take articles. overrode X*). On the way back, I started But if we take the DX out of the VUD then hearing it at MM 104, up to about MM 23 on there’s no reason for the VUD. The other stuff the Turnpike! (That's about a 45-mile ride.) (TV News, FM News, Facilities, etc) could all They advertised being at a flea market in be put up on a website every month instead. Princeton soon. (* Freeport's 104.5 did appear We have WTFDAers who are also NRC around MM 36.) DXers look out for this one! members. The NRC has always had a Musings There are also pirates in Homestead & Fla column where members could talk about City on 94.5, 104.7 & 107.3 (horrible audio). anything. That might be interesting reading. There was a change or two from last trips: As a matter of fact, I’ll ask a question. What Radio Ciudad de la Habana (//AM 820) moved are you thoughts about the NRC/IRCA finally from 94.9 to 94.7. Radio Taino uses 94.7 as doing a convention together? How many of well. R Ciudad has ST light on; Taino doesn't. you would have preferred a WTFDA-only And there is also Radio Marti on 94.7 from 7 to convention?? Does it make any difference? 9:30 pm, erratically. They were on air tonight. Even though this is an FM thread, it looks MEMBERS AND MORE like one Canal Habana station moved from ch 38 to ch 40, but I cannot be 100% sure. We have a new member this month. He’s Bill Malona and lives in Colorado. And he’s And now from Building the only person I’ve ever known who has built 19, here’s their little FM his own Probe 9 for FM DXing. It’s on the cover radio, just right for Dxing this month. Bill got the specifications from your locals. I bet they those on my own website (fmdx.usclargo.com) didn’t know it’s “tiniest”, and from Brian Beezley’s website. The not “tinyest”. Well, what do aluminum came from other antennas. I’m you want for a buck. happy that my site could play some part in all this. Nice going, Bill! That’s it. See you next During the period from Jan 18th through Feb month! -Mike 13th we had renewals come in from David 2 Douglas E. Smith TV 1389 Old Clarksville Pike Pleasant View, TN 37146-8098 News [email protected] http://www.w9wi.com March 2013 Abbreviations: AF Applied For (a new station) NW New station on the air Aux Auxiliary (backup) transmitter PA Proposed Amendment CC Callsign change PC Power (and/or tower height) change on the air CL City-of-license change PG Power change granted CX Canceled PR Power change requested DC Converted to DTV RA Returns to the air DCC Digital Companion Channel QC Channel (frequency) change on the air NS DCC Granted flash-cut to DTV QG Channel change granted DE License/permit deleted QR Channel change requested DR Requests flash-cut to DTV RE Reinstated (previously-dismissed app.) FC Programming (format) change ROA Request of Applicant FTP Failure to Prosecute SI Off the air (silent) GA Granted amendment (to table of channel STA Special Temporary Authority allotments) LC License to Cover XC Transmitter site changed MX Mutually Exclusive XG Transmitter site change granted NDA Non-directional antenna XR Transmitter site change requested NS Permit granted for new station lpdtv Low Power Digital TV DG Granted conversion to DTV DRT Digital Replacement Translator News: (full-power digital stations in bold face; LPTV and translators in Yauco 54 W54AQ CX regular type; full-power analog stations in bold italics; low-power analog stations in regular italics) CANADA U.S. Virgin Islands Alberta Christiansted 52 WEYA-LP CX Red Deer 28 CITV-DT-1 AF 132kw/ 264m (DTV for analog ch. 10) USA British Columbia Kamloops 22 CHKM-DT AF 30kw/ 150m (DTV for analog ch. 6) Prince George 29 CIFG-DT AF 30kw/ 482m (DTV for analog Alabama ch. 12) Decatur 35 W35DG PR<350w, 33-53-28/ 86-55-58; PG Dothan 23 WDON-LD AF 15kw, 30-55-11/ 85-44-30; DCC for analog 41 Huntsville 31 W31DX PR>15kw, 34-44-12/ 86-31-59; CL from Ontario Scottsboro; PG Hamilton 36 CITS-DT PR>473kw Kingston 11 CKWS-DT AF 9.4kw/ 313m Peterborough 12 CHEX-DT AF 20kw/ 318m Alaska Fairbanks 24,5K54EW CX Puerto Rico 4 Aguada 6 W06DA PR>3kw, 18-09-00/ 66- 59-00; PG Aguada 63 W63BF CX San Lorenzo 29 W29EE XG 18-16-32/ 66-05-41 3 Arizona Delaware Camp Verde 31 K55IY QC from 55, 165w Dover 5 WMDE PA from Seaford Prescott 30 K09KV DC from 9, 1.2kw, 34- 29-25/ 112-32-00 District of Columbia Washington 58 WIAV-LP CX Arkansas Bentonville 48 K48MR DC 12.4kw, 36-21-36/ 94-20-24 Paris 35 KRAH-CD DC from 49, 1.5kw, 35- 18-07/ 93-45-42 West Helena 38 K38PA PR<1.7kw, 34-32-46/ 90-37-16; CL from Cleveland, Miss.; PG; Florida CC from W38FG Big Pine Key 57 W57AM CX Gainesville 23 WUOF-LD CC from W23DG Matecumbe 43 W43AD PC>3kw, 25-46-24/ 80- 11-18 Miami 22 WFOR- PG<297m Miami 32 WBFS-TV PR<297m, 25-58-07/ 80-13-20; PG St. Petersburg 36 WDNP-LP CC from W36CO California Bakersfield 18 K18HD PC<12.43kw, 35-26- 17/ 118-44-22 Calexico 7 K36FO QC from 36, 3kw, 32- 40-30/ 115-22-38 Hawaii El Centro 56 KHFS-LP CX Kailua-Kona 63 K63DZ CX Eureka 9 KUVU-LP FC; sold to KBLN Lihue 69 K69BZ CX Eureka 29 KECA-LP DG 15kw, 40-43-39/ Wailuku 61 KAMN-LP CX 123-58-17; DC Fresno 17 K17JI DC from K12OZ, 15kw, 36-44-45/ 119-16-57 Los Angeles 34 KMEX-DT NS 40kw/ 222m, 34- 09-50/ 118-11-45 (aux) Ontario 29 KFTR-DT NS 40kw/ 222m, 34- 09-50/ 118-11-45 (aux) Idaho Palm Springs 21 K21DO DR 15kw, 33-52-01/ Boise 20 KHFR-LD CC from KITL-LD 116-26-03 Garden Valley 32, K53EF, DC from 53/ 55/ 57, Petaluma 4 KTVJ-LP DR from 36 dismissed 34, K55GZ, 10w Van Nuys 55 K55KD CX 36 K57FO Vista 26 KVSD-LP CC from K26FA Terrace Lakes 11 K11WV QC from K10OA, 47w Colorado Illinois Durango 33 KRTN-TV AF 95kw/ 62m, 36-41- Arlington Heights 22 WRJK-LP CC from W22AJ 48/ 108-10-39; (near Aurora 20 WPVN-CD PC>15kw, 41-53-21/ Farmington, NM) 87-37-36; CL from second transmitter to Chicago form DTS Chicago 6 WKQX- DG 3kw Fort Collins 24 K24JW PR>7.5kw, 40-29-37/ Chicago 43 WCPX PR>222kw dismissed 105-10-53; PG Chicago 44 WLS-TV AF 1000kw/ 437m, 41- La Junta 35 K35DZ DC 134w 53-56/ 87-37-23 (aux) Lamar 42 K42EA DC 134w Chicago 44 WLS-TV AF 908kw/ 475m (aux) Las Animas 40 K40DP DC 134w Plano 35 WSPY-LD XG 41-50-36/ 88-05-00 Pueblo 16 K16KA NW 15kw, 37-38-21/ Quincy 52 KZSL-LP CX 105-22-11 (Sande Family Trust) Rocky Ford 39 K39ED DC 134w Springfield 14 K62CT QR from 62 dismissed Springfield 62, K62CT, CX 64, K64CT, Indiana 66, K66CW, South Bend 42 WNDU-TV NS 631kw/ 68 K68CR 282m (aux) Woodland Park 33 K33EW DC 134w 4 Missouri Iowa Branson 25 K25BD PR<50w, 36-39-57/ 93- Ames 23 KCWI- PR>1000kw 13-00; PG; PC Des Moines 19 KDMI PR>1000kw Kansas City 29 KMBC-, NW 91.2kw/ 31 KCWE 89.1kw/283m (aux) Kirksville 33 KTVO PR>174kw Kansas Dodge City 32 K32JF NW 1kw, 37-45-58/ 100-02-03 Montana Garden City 44 K44JV NW 1kw, 37-46-43/ Bridger 57, K57EW, CX 100-53-43 59, K59DT, Lawrence 41 KGKC-LD PC>15kw, 39-01-20/ 61, K61EX, 94-30-50 63 K63EA Colstrip 61 K61BL CX Helena 49 K49EH DC 3.1kw Sweetgrass 61, K61BZ, CX 63, K63AQ, 65 K65DK Kentucky Turner 60 K60BV CX Glasgow 62 WKUG-LP CX Nebraska Louisiana Grand Island 56 K56FC CX Hammond 38 WSTY-LD AF 15kw, 30-32-29/ North Platte 25 KNPL-LD CC from K25KA 90-29-03; DCC for analog ch 23 Lake Charles 69 KYHT-LP CX Maurice 38 K38OF XR 30-12-49/ 92-04- 59; CL from Crowley West Monroe 18 KWMS-LP DC from 17, 14kw Nevada Caliente 2, 9, K02JO, DC 4w/ 14w/ 40w/ 11, K09FL, 40w/ 240w, 37-37-18/ 13, K11CN, 114-30-28 45 K13LV, K45AL Massachusetts Fish Lake Valley 53, K53EZ, CX Boston 58 WCEA-LP CX 59 K59FH New Bedford 22 WLWC PC>425kw/ 222m Incline